For instance, Command-Option-L opens the Levels dialog box with the same settings you last used. But as soon as you quit Photoshop, it loses its memory. Opening Palettes from Dialog Boxes. We almost always work with the Info palette open. However, every now and again it gets closed or covered up with some other palette. Unfortunately, while you're in a dialog box like the Curves or Levels dialog boxes , you cannot click on any palette without leaving the dialog box by pressing OK or Cancel.
Fortunately for efficiency, you can select a palette from theWindows menu. To display the Info palette, select Show Info from this menu. Unfortunately, this doesn't work for palettes that are docked in the palette well. We love keystrokes. They make everything go much faster, or at least they make it feel like we're working faster. Here are a few keystrokes that we use all the time while in dialog boxes. Holding down the Option key while in a dialog box almost always changes the Cancel button into a Reset button, letting you reset the dialog box to its original state the way it was when you first opened it.
If you want to go keystrokes the whole way, type Command-Option-period to do the same thing. You already know Command-Z what Seattle's Mac user group calls "Just Undo It" , because it's gotten you out of more jams than you care to think about. Well, Command-Z performs an undo within dialog boxes, too. It undoes the last change you made. We use this all the time when we mistype. Arrow keys. Many dialog boxes in Photoshop have text fields where you enter or change numbers see Figure You can change those numbers by pressing the Up or Down arrow keys.
Press once, and the number increases or decreases by one. If you hold down the Shift key while pressing the arrow key, it changes by Note that some dialog boxes change by a tenth or even a hundredth; when you hold down Shift, they change by 10 times as much. A few dialog boxes use the arrow keys in a different way, or don't use them at all. In the Lens Flare filter, for instance, the arrow keys move the position of the effect, and arrow keys just don't do anything in most of the Distort filters.
Figure Numerical fields in dialog boxes. Tab key. As in most Macintosh and Windows applications, the Tab key selects the next text field in dialog boxes with multiple text fields. You can use this in conjunction with the previous tip in dialog boxes such as the Unsharp Mask filter, or you can simply tab to the next field and type in a number if you already know the value you want.
Most of Photoshop's tonal- and color-correction features and many of its filters offer a Preview checkbox in their dialog boxes. Plus, all the filters that have a dialog box have a proxy window that shows the effect applied to a small section of the image some dialog boxes have both.
If you're working on a very large file on a relatively slow machine, and the filter you're using has a proxy window, you might want to turn off the Preview checkbox so that Photoshop doesn't slow down redrawing the screen.
However, most of the time we just leave the Preview feature on. When the Preview option was off, the video LUT "look up table" kicked in, altering the entire screen instead of just the image or portion of an image. This was much faster on slow machines, but wasn't always accurate and didn't work in Windows anyway. Today, we primarily use the Preview checkbox to view "before" and "after" versions of our images, toggling it on and off to see the effect of the changes without leaving the dialog box.
The proxy in dialog boxes shows only a small part of the image, but it updates almost instantly. Previewing time-consuming filters such as Unsharp Mask or Motion Blur on a large file can take a long time, and some very time-consuming filters such as the Distort filters don't offer a preview at all, so we rely on the proxy a lot.
Before and After in Proxies. You can always see a before-and-after comparison by clicking in the proxy. Hold down the mouse button to see the image before the filter is applied, release it to see the image after the filter is applied. Proceed to the next step. Download Get file fonts. Restore to default windows font settings. To do so: Click Start , and then click Run.
Click Restore Default Font Settings. Relaunch Photoshop. If you already have the latest drivers, reinstall them to repair the installation. Solution 7: Re-create the CS3 application preferences file. Close Photoshop CS3. Open Photoshop CS3. Photoshop creates a preferences file. Solution 8: Update the user privileges on the preferences folder.
Quit all applications. Close the Command Prompt window. Alternate method for Windows XP Professional:. Close your CS3 applications. Click the View tab. Click OK. Right-click the Adobe folder and select Properties.
Select the Security tab. Click Advanced. Click the Owner tab. Select Administrators. Click OK on the warning that displays. Open your CS3 application s. I looked in the registry for a dialog box position cache but did not find one. At this point Photoshop is essentially unusable. Please help. This is probably an "off screen" dialog. This behaviour sometimes occurs after switching from dual monitors to one. Ps also see the FAQ for more solutions.
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